Backend Developer Senior (Python), Instances Control Plane

Powered by talented and passionate people working hard on democratizing the cloud, Scaleway, the 2nd leading European infrastructure cloud provider, is a multicultural company, rapidly growing into a global brand. We are present in 160 countries, with more than 280 employees of 18 nationalities.
We are a cloud computing pioneer delivering the innovative capabilities of modern multi cloud, covering a full spectrum of services for professionals: public cloud services with Scaleway Elements, private infrastructures and colocation with Scaleway Datacenter and bare Metal infrastructures with Scaleway Dedibox.

We place people at the heart of our purpose as an enabler of the internet. Our organization encourages responsibility, autonomy, commitment and thought leadership from our collaborators. Our premises are open spaces, conducive to exchange and interaction between individuals.

We believe it is our responsibility to be a positive force in society and to collectively design new systems for a better future. We want to increase access to the digital and technology industry. As our business scales, the customers we serve are increasingly diverse and global. Giving them an unbeatable experience is central to our business strategy. To better understand our customers and partners, we need a workforce that’s as diverse as they are.

About the job

We are looking for an Instances Control Plane Engineer to join our team. Your main mission will be to create, deliver and maintain software components that orchestrate hypervisors across our global infrastructure. Are you ready to define and strengthen cloud services that will make developers life easier and improve their efficiency ? This is a unique opportunity to join Scaleway, help scale the fundamentals of our Virtual Instances and ease their usage leveraging our APIs, our User Console and our ecosystem of Cloud Products.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build the services that deliver Virtual Instances and sustain our Database, Kubernetes Kapsule and Load Balancer managed services
• Design, develop, test and deploy improvements & new services that run at scale to match our growth perspective
• Work closely with product managers to build the next products and features that will serve developers of any company
• Drive architecture of our virtual instances services, identify current limitations, work with multiple engineering teams (Instances SRE, Network, Storage and Database, Domain) and come up with solutions 

What We Expect from You

• 4+ years of experience as Python backend developer
• A great attitude and desire to collaborate within and with engineering teams
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• Experience with infrastructure as code and continuous deployment
• Experience with Linux systems

Technical stack & tools we use

• Python, Flask
• RabbitMQ + Celery
• PostgreSQL + SQLAlchemy
• Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, ElasticSearch
• Ansible, AWX, Foreman
• GitLab
• Jira, Confluence, Slack

Nice to Have

• Experience with relational databases
• Experience with messaging systems
• Knowledge of one cloud platform and related use-cases 
• Experience as an OSS contributor or maintainer

You recognize yourself by reading these lines and you want to join a young, innovative, growing company where it is good to work ?

Then don’t wait any longer and join us :)